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Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.

A female satrap.

To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.

the wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [Colloq.] Dickens.

e head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. Lev. xvi. 10.

A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.

Destitute of a scape.

Same as Escapement, 3.

pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.

One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

An instrument with which anything is scraped. Specifically:

The thrasher shark.

oloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.

A picture representing a scene at sea. [Jocose] Thackeray.

An imperfect or diminished fifth. Busby.

A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.

cially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face. Prior.

Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to Ant: shapely. -- Shape"less*ness, n. The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope.

The quality or state of being shapely.